Friday Morning Links

by | Sep 6, 2024 | Daily Links | 159 comments

Hey, the NFL is back!!!!! And that whole kickoff thing makes me grind my teeth. But I’ll look past that because it’s pro football and it’s back! I don’t know what else I’ve got. Some good soccer coming up this weekend, with England-Ireland topping the list. But I’m gonna be watching college football all day tomorrow, so the Limey-Mick hatefest might get skipped. Now, on to…the links!

Why will it matter? They’ll revise it in a few months and show that whatever numbers were released were optimistically made up. The initial reports only matter as talking points for the team in charge of making the numbers up. We won’t know the real story until they’re forced to be honest down the road.

This will be interesting. But let’s be honest here: this was a political case and the fact that she can’t remember any details whatsoever of the encounter beyond “trust me, he did it” seemed to matter in the trial itself. I am skeptical that the appeals court made up of people with similar politics as the trial judge and jury are gonna care about the preponderance of evidence standard or equal protection under the law.

Hey, the guy is finally being honest. I’m sure he didn’t want any of his financial arrangements, or the timeline in which they happened, made public. Because they would probably show that he wasn’t the only one engaged in this enterprise.

What a series of colossal failures. I have no problem with this idiot dad being charged with something, although I think he’s been overcharged. Sadly, the cops and feds who could have actually preempted this whole affair will suffer no consequences.

They’re being generous to Adams. If the feds do their job here, there’s gonna be a lot more people than just the police commissioner resigning. And probably spending some time in a jail cell too.

They’re just now figuring this out? Anybody with a pair of eyes and an understanding of history could tell you what they’re just now starting to see.

Is this guy a sadist? Why else would he spend so much money in order to watch people suffer?

Here comes some climate change. Except this will be real. Curious how they’ll blame people (western civilization only) for what happens.

Here’s an upbeat little ditty for you. Too many tracks of theirs to choose from. I’ll settle on this gem. But I could have chosen one of a few dozen. Enjoy them.

And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.

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159 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    Except this will be real. Curious how they’ll blame people (western civilization only) for what happens.

    Quantum entanglement. Don’t you even SCIENCE! bro?

    • Strange Brew

      Everyone knows that the increase in sun spots is caused by white fragility.

    • AlexinCT

      They won’t even work to hard to make up some shit and then accuse anyone of questioning it of being a denier. Pure cultish shit.

      That agenda is marxist looking to lower world population under 2 billion and to return to a feudal marxist system so these cabal behind this can keep their line as the bosses while the rest of the people are fodder. You can’t get more evil than that.

  2. Not Adahn

    The investigator wrote that no arrests were made because of ‘inconsistent information’ on the Discord account, which had profile information in Russian and a digital evidence trail indicating it had been accessed in different Georgia cities as well as Buffalo, New York.

    The Discord account had a user name written in Russian, and the translation of the letters spelled out the name Lanza, referencing Adam Lanza,

    Wut?

  3. Not Adahn

    *taps mic* Hello?

    • Contrarian P

      You gotta break em in out of town.

    • sloopyinca

      Good morning!

    • Rat on a train

      привет

    • Sean

      Ni hao

    • Not Adahn

      *whew*

      I was afraid the raids had begun.

      • robodruid

        These accounts are compromised. They are a triple bluff…..
        Run away!

      • Not Adahn

        You know Sloopy will be one of their first targets — he controls our killdozer supply.

      • sloopyinca

        I’m ok with that.

        ::sharpens punji sticks, prepares sod:3

  4. rhywun

    They’re being generous to Adams.

    He’s terrible of course but the sad part is it could be so much worse; one of the “far-lefties lining up to primary him” will probably win and makes things even worse there.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      So, Chicago?

  5. Drake

    Hamas wants a deal?

    I’m not defending Hamas, but Israel blew up their deal negotiator in Teheran. Also blew up the Hezbollah negotiations guy in Beirut. I don’t think there is a lot of applicants for lead negotiator with Israel positions right now.

    • sloopyinca

      You’re right. Israel killed two terrorists.

      • Drake

        Sure – but to run a story shortly thereafter that says “they must not want to negotiate” is a bit much. Like Bruce Willis in the Fifth Element asking who wants to negotiate.

      • sloopyinca

        If they only have one person capable of negotiating, then they might want to improve their organizational structure. Because if you’re a terrorist state and are constantly killing people and then begging to negotiate a cease-fire before your opponent can retaliate, you might want to keep more than one negotiator on the payroll.

        Also, was he planning his negotiating strategy in Tehran? What an odd place to do your prep work.

      • Pine_Tree

        I know we generally disagree on most of this, but they’re just clearly and deliberately using the word “negotiate” differently than you are – doublespeak to give the rest of the diplomatic world a little cover since they’re dependent on US aid.

        What they really mean is “you tell us that you surrender and hand over the hostages, and we can then talk about what happens next”.

        And hitting enemy leadership, who’d been hiding in luxury away from the conflict, was absolutely the right move to make to end the war the fastest.

      • AlexinCT

        Sure – but to run a story shortly thereafter that says “they must not want to negotiate” is a bit much.

        I am sorry, but any negotiations with these people is fruitless. Since Arafat got a golden deal because of weak people, and then admitted he could not take a deal that would give them a nation, because the people wanted genocide and if that was off the table then he was toast, it was obvious negotiations were just stalling tactics by people that want to genocide you. And the Israelis are just the closest group of people they want genocided. If they get their way, the west is next.

        Also, Hamas could have quickly forced negotiations by actually offering to or turning over the hostages. This was never done. The hostages were going to be kept to protect the murderous scum.

      • Pine_Tree

        (threading makes this ambiguous, but I was trying to respond to Drake, of course)

      • Cunctator

        FTA: —“”The text is basically done except for two paragraphs and the annexes of the prisoner exchange and two maps of IDF deployment in Gaza during the first phase of the deal,” a U.S. official said.”—

        So, basically, not done.

      • R C Dean

        Weirdly, when Hamas/Hez/whoever “military” leaders are killed, military activity goes on and there seems to be no shortage of replacements. No sure why killing a negotiator works the opppsite way.

      • Nephilium

        R C Dean:

        I thought it was always the second-in-command who always got popped, never the man in charge.

    • Grumbletarian

      IMO the only negotiation Israel should engage in with Hamas is the location where Hamas will sign their unconditional surrender.

      • The Last American Hero

        It should be signed in Tehran.

    • Nephilium

      Hamas wants a deal?

      They had had a deal, and then something happened, completely out of their control, to end it.

    • Not Adahn

      Of course Hamas want’s a deal, they’ve spelled it out:

      Hamas gets to stay in power
      Hamas gets enough money to rebuild everything
      Hamas gets its captured fighters returned

      And in exchange, they’ll ship some Jew-corpses over.

    • Suthenboy

      I am not interesting in debating any of this. The time for talking came to an end on Oct. 7.

    • bacon-magic

      Terrorists don’t have deal negotiators…just more terrorists. Rule #1 is you don’t negotiate with terrorists…anybody who does will pay dearly for their mistake.

  6. Not Adahn

    I’ve been leaving the back door open in the evenings so Lily can patrol and guard the yard and the weather’s great.

    Packing for Nationals, I’m missing stuff — a couple of hats, a magazine that is convertible to normal capacity, a pair of shorts, one of my copies of the rulebook…

    The obvious assumption is that I’m a shitty housekeeper. However, I did see something odd sticking out of the ground and it turned out to be one of the missing hats that somebody decided to bury.

    • ron73440

      That’s funny.

      My step dad’s late hound would steal any unattended glove she could get a hold of.

      Still have no idea where she hid or buried them.

      • The Last American Hero

        They’re in a storm drain in Brentwood, California. That’s why the glove didn’t fit OJ.

    • Rat on a train

      I’ve been leaving the door to the screened deck open. I discovered a neighborhood cat comes onto the unscreened deck in the morning. My cats are not pleased.

    • EvilSheldon

      Need magazines? Let me know!

      • Not Adahn

        Are you going?

        I ordered some to be shipped to the hotel.

        My initial plan was to stop at a gun store en route and buy them but looking at the prices, even with expedited shipping, these ordered ones are cheaper.

        The prone stage has more than 10 shots prone, or I’d shoot Prod NY style.

    • bacon-magic

      If your puppy is burying items of yours it indicates you need to reassert your dominance. You’ll both be happier.

      • Not Adahn

        I am absolutely certain she knows who the bitch is in our relationship.

  7. rhywun

    Biden and his top advisers were shocked after Hamas killed six hostages

    Sure they were. 🙄

    They want a “cease fire” to please their base – they don’t give a shit about dead hostages.

    • Nephilium

      Of course they care about dead hostages.

      Those are new Harris voters!

      • AlexinCT

        they don’t give a shit about dead hostages.

        If they did they would have told the people leading the death cultist in that block of land that they were coming for all of them unless they freed the hostages, and then did so. Instead they are helping these murderous fucks hide while the people they supposedly are representing get the brunt of the response for these assholes and their evil ways.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Especially dead American hostages.

  8. AlexinCT

    HEY!

    Where did you Glibs get a pic of me ridding Porky?

    • bacon-magic

      THAT WAS BETWEEN US! See if you get a baconback ride again.

    • Bobarian LMD

      “Ridding” is that a portmanteau of riding and …. diddling?

  9. Pine_Tree

    The GA school thing is fairly close to home. A hundred miles or so, but the daughter of one of my cousins is a student there and was present. And some church friends were having a meeting fairly close by and could hear all the sirens.

    The idiot dad seems definitely to have been overcharged. Most of that is a personal reaction, in that like a lot of y’all I got my first long arm (shotgun of course) as a gift at 12. And did the same for my kids. So to me, doing that is a very good thing in and of itself. But it has to go along with raising a son who can carry a gun properly. Family seems way too messed-up for that, so yeah, it’s stoopid.

    And the hyperventilating about the FBI having made contact in the past is of course to be expected, even though none of the hyperventilators can explain what the FBI is supposed to do about a dumb 13yo making random threat-y statements on the ‘net. Anyway, I’ll stop rambling.

    • Pine_Tree

      amendment: OK I just finished the linked article. Yikes at the mom. Dad seems an idiot but she seems to be remarkably bad, almost enough to gin up some sympathy for the dad.

    • R C Dean

      I still have not seen anything that looks to me like an actual, you know, crime committed by the shooter’s father.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That door was opened with the previous one where the parents were convicted. Somehow making a connection that the kid was ‘on the radar’ when by all accounts, they really couldn’t even say it was the kid in 2023 saying those things online, then saying well “Dad bought him a gun anyway!”…they want blood for blood they will get blood for blood. Either the kid or the dad.

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, weird how law enforcement doesn’t have enough to do anything but shrug and wander off, but the parents commit criminal neglect if they don’t do anything.

    • EvilSheldon

      Handwaving Freakoutery with their usual trenchant analysis. The suicide connection especially seems like it should be worth exploring.

    • sloopyinca

      The same FBI that tracked down and verified online chatter between people who didn’t even go to Washington on J6, and then used that evidence to throw those people in prison for years didn’t have the free time to do the same when someone looks to have been making actionable threats to commit mass murder and has access to the tools necessary and has the ability to carry it out?

      Gee, I don’t know what they could have done…perhaps use their resources to foil actual crimes before they happen and get this kid institutionalized so he can be treated for his mental illness rather than use them to lock people up just because they said “u hope they burn the Capitol down” from their home in bumbfuck, IA.

  10. AlexinCT

    What a series of colossal failures. I have no problem with this idiot dad being charged with something, although I think he’s been overcharged. Sadly, the cops and feds who could have actually preempted this whole affair will suffer no consequences.

    So what’s the latest spin on making these crooks your average team MAGA members? I know they are already blaming GUNS!, but there is a an election they have to rig as well..

    • AlexinCT

      I went from shaking my head and making fun of the British to realizing they are about to experience evil first hand.

      The marxist globalist movement is in a panic. Their malthusian agenda to murder enough people to get world population below 2 billion and then to create a world government of credentialed elites to run the new feudal system seems to have faltered and be heading for hell, and this means they will not be able to avoid the disaster their last 7 or 8 decades of policies have straddled us with, and the wrath directed at them for that.

      It is going to get a lot – a lot – uglier for us to rid ourselves of these evil people.

    • DrOtto

      Is Australia at capacity?

      • Drake

        Poland has some empty camps…

      • Nephilium

        We’re AT CAPACITY!

      • Rat on a train

        Poland has camps with transit access.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Starmer is an authoritarian piece of shit and this is all to be expected.

      • Gustave Lytton

        He smirks more than Peter Strzok.

  11. AlexinCT

    They’re being generous to Adams. If the feds do their job here, there’s gonna be a lot more people than just the police commissioner resigning. And probably spending some time in a jail cell too.

    So a higher cabal of crime syndicates is targeting a bunch of members of a state level crime syndicate? It either is really bad or some internal power conflict.

  12. AlexinCT

    This will be interesting. But let’s be honest here: this was a political case and the fact that she can’t remember any details whatsoever of the encounter beyond “trust me, he did it” seemed to matter in the trial itself. I am skeptical that the appeals court made up of people with similar politics as the trial judge and jury are gonna care about the preponderance of evidence standard or equal protection under the law.

    I am at the point that I wouldn’t trust the legal system in a blue are anymore. This is all high profile stuff and these people are basically making a mockery of the legal system for political and personal gains. If you think they are not doing this to many, if not all, of those that comes through their broken system, then you have not thought this through. The system has become a way for these fucks to advance their careers or fortunes, and not to serve the people.

    BTW, that is our biggest problem: unaccountable and unelected government bureaucracies are now captured by people whose priority is their own wishes & agendas, and they see the people these entities used to serve as just sheep to fleece, if not outright as personal enemies.

    • Cunctator

      I saw a lot of claims about how bad the Board’s decisions have been, but not one example of a decision and why it was bad.

      Did I miss it?

    • DrOtto

      *winces*

    • sloopyinca

      “Taking to Reddit, he allowed…”

      I checked out. Anybody that voluntarily spills their purse out on Reddit somebody don’t want to know about.

      Although, I hope somebody over there cued up the Ghostbusters meme in the replies.

    • DrOtto

      What a maroon.

    • R C Dean

      Crucial detail missing:

      What kind of car?

      • Suthenboy

        Crucial information there: The car was going 82mph.

      • Tundra

        Could be almost any FWD. The OP said he paid 10K for it so it could be anything.

        Either way, his brother should be beaten badly.

  13. Evan from Evansville

    First check as a phlebotomist! $1150 for “two weeks” but I haven’t seen the time sheet to see how they calculated it. It should be a bit closer to $1900, but I also kinda started mid(work)week. I’ll see how it all looks when I get the app sorted.

    Puts a worthwhile step in my loafers as I depart for more. I was down to about $40, though rent is provided. Big Steps are big for one to remember. Quite pleased my odd foray into the medical field may indeed have been a spark of Knave+Nicole wisdom working well together.

    Kick ass to all, and to all good luck.

    • ron73440

      Good to hear you’re doing well.

      When do you get to stab people?

    • The Last American Hero

      Now you just need your “Phlebotomists Stick It in Everyone” bumper sticker.

    • AlexinCT

      Is it that she has XX chromosomes?

      Just kidding.

    • sloopyinca

      Earlier this year, a study revealed that female psychopaths are more common than we think, because studies have ‘long failed to identify them.’

      Most men know a good 25% or women are nuts (I’m being generous). The only reasonn these poindexters didn’t know was because they’ve been nerding it up in a lab their whole life instead of interacting with women IRL.

      • WTF

        By male standards, all women are crazy; it’s just a matter of degree.

      • kinnath

        I disagree. And I don’t like this stereotype.

        I don’t consider my mother, my wife, my daughter, or the women engineers that I work with to be crazy.

    • ron73440

      women who use minimal makeup are more likely to have this dark personality trait.

      Guess I’ll have to pay more attention to my wife.

      Maybe the whole “nicest person I know” thing is just an act, because she hardly ever wears any makeup.

    • R C Dean

      “Current scientific evidence suggests that male psychopaths outnumber females by around six to one.

      But Dr Boddy thinks the real ratio of male to female psychopathy is about 1.2 to one – up to five times higher than previously suggested.”

      Journalists really aren’t very bright, are they.

    • Sean

      Sounds like malarkey.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nice jugs but she has a weird shaped head…also women who accidentally kill their kid while partying are no goes for me.

      • Pine_Tree

        For some reason I always wonder “what does somebody like that do for a living now?” It says she lives in a “luxury apartment complex”. OK, whatever, but how’s she been paying the bills for the last umpteen years? Maybe the answer is a normal job; it just seems hard to imagine a normal employer making that hiring decision.

      • Pine_Tree

        well i guess i should have finished the whole article first…

        “…worked remotely as a researcher for a private investigator…”

    • Suthenboy

      Dr. Suthenboy’s crackpot analysis: This article is bullshit.

      First off they have the definition of psychopath wrong. It goes down hill from there.

  14. Common Tater

    “Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration allocated nearly $449,000 in taxpayer money to a left-wing legal nonprofit as part of an apparent “sue-and-settlement” plan that put the first transgender inmate in a state women’s prison, The Post can exclusively reveal.

    In 2023, the Democratic vice presidential nominee’s office shelled out $448,904 to Saint Paul-based Gender Justice, one year after the nonprofit filed a sex discrimination complaint against Minnesota’s Department of Corrections (DOC), according to a review of public records shared with The Post by the taxpayer watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-news/walz-admin-funneled-449k-from-taxpayers-into-legal-nonprofit-that-sued-to-put-first-transgender-inmate-in-minn-womens-prison/

    CWAA

  15. Ownbestenemy

    Why will it matter? They’ll revise it in a few months and show that whatever numbers were released were optimistically made up.

    We promise this time we are telling the truth!

  16. Suthenboy

    The economy is shit and by design. Every single policy the left is implementing or planning to implement has been tried countless times and results in disaster. We know this. How they are able to sell that crock of shit is amazing. Also, I see people wearing masks again. Masks dont work. They make no difference whatsoever. We have known this for a hundred years before this last round of face diapermandates and the people that demanded it fucking well knew it.
    Morons never learn.

    The judicial system is making a joke of themselves. At some point, like all good tyrants, they will forbid people from pointing that out.

    The whole Hunter Biden business was about Joe and his treason. They let Hillary off and now they will Joe as well. I can only imagine how deep and far this goes. Instead they are prosecuting some conservative commentators. Imagine that…it’s almost like they are banana republic monkeys.

    I dont have an opinion on the shooter boy or his family. A – I dont know enough, B- I dont trust a word the press or cops say.
    See: Trump shooting and countless FBI staged busts.

    NYC Adams and co. Kerfuffle – See comment above. This ball started rolling the minute Adams started resisting the facilitation of foreign invaders.

    No, they are not just now figuring it out. They knew this all along. They have so totally shit on their credibility by aiding our enemies so many times that I would not be surprised to learn that they knew about the Oct7 attack before hand and said nothing.

    It is important to distinguish between sociopaths and psychopaths. This guy is probably the former.

    We dont really know enough about the sun for me to have a lot of confidence in their predictions. Looking at the climate cycles of the past I would guess we have a couple of thousand years left of warming. We are today right where we should expect to be in the cycles. It wouldn’t be all that surprising if we did begin a cooling period but I wouldn’t bet on it for a little longer.

    • sloopyinca

      My daughter, a hardcore Ohio State fan like her old man, has named her team “Njigba Please” and I couldn’t be more proud of her.

      • Nephilium

        /golf clap

    • Suthenboy

      Anything right? That is the point of wokeness, to select for incompetence and turn brains to mush.

    • Drake

      I bet they got Joe Biden off their ballots in plenty of time.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Elections are not just a game, and states are not obligated to honor the whims of candidates for office

      Say….like suddenly swapping out a candidate

    • The Last American Hero

      Same shit in Michigan. Meanwhile, Cornell West is suing the state to remain on the ballot.

      So put that one in the Blue Column.

  17. Shpip

    Shame and Scandal:

    Corporate real estate investors own more than 117,000 single-family homes across Florida, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of the state by the Tampa Bay Times. Experts say these investors capitalized on the state’s population growth and minimal renter protections.

    Oh, my! That sounds like a lot. And it must be bad, right?

    Turns out, the article never states that there are 5.7 million single-family houses in the state of Florida, with thousands more being built every year. The REITs buying up starter homes (mostly in Tampa and Orlando exurbs) are renting them to middle-management types with kids who live there for 2-5 years, then get promoted to Raleigh or Dallas or wherever.

    • Nephilium

      This is the new terrible thing that’s driving up housing prices. Sherrod Brown has a campaign ad that’s on rotation that’s talking about how he’s working to fight “predatory investment”, which is his name for foreign investors buying single family homes.

  18. Common Tater

    “Update: Shortly after this report was published, Tenet Media announced privately to its staff that it was ceasing operations, effective immediately….

    On Thursday, Semafor reported that Chen had been fired as a contributor to Blaze Media, where she had contributed videos for years. With over a million followers combined between YouTube and X, Chen was also an influencer and contributor to conservative activist group TPUSA.

    On Thursday, TPUSA removed Chen’s contributor profile page from their website but otherwise has not commented publicly.

    By Thursday evening, Chen and Tenet Media’s YouTube accounts were deactivated.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-tenet-media-founders-were-raided-just-as-the-doj-indictment-dropped

    • PieInTheSky

      cant trust a Chen

    • R.J.

      Gee, that’s not a fake op to freak out the right, is it? Give it a year after the election and the charges will be bogus, they will be free and totally broken.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yeah. 3.5 years to “investigate” election “interference” and it drops two months before the election. That is what real interference and tampering looks like.

        Any third world shithole doing this to opposition supporters would be decried by the State Dept in a heartbeat.

  19. PieInTheSky

    The Cifrapalota is an Art Nouveau building from 1902 in Kecskemét, Hungary. It is designed by architect Geza Markus (1871-1912), an important representative of Hungarian Art Nouveau.

    https://x.com/NouveauDeco/status/1831783540922765792

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Big chance

    “This is a huge opportunity for ABC News,” said Ben Sherwood, former ABC News president and now publisher & CEO of the Daily Beast. “It’s like getting to host, moderate and produce the Super Bowl of politics. It gives the network luster at a time broadcast television is in decline.”

    More likely, they will put on a tutorial on why people hate the establishment media.

    • AlexinCT

      ^^^^THIS^^^^

      But hey, it will be a win for the left. Even when it is not…

    • Nephilium

      the Super Bowl of politics

      Really? How do the ratings compare? Pretty sure even a Patriots/Panthers Superbowl would do better.

    • AlexinCT

      Now with more opium and communism!

  21. PieInTheSky

    stupid fucking ragweed allergy how the fuck did that shit end up here

    • AlexinCT

      Vampire hunters?

      • ron73440

        Vampire hunters?

        They ran out of garlic, so they had to work with what they had.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Proof?

    Carroll’s lawyers argue that the judge’s rulings on evidence were proper. They argued the judge was correct to allow the testimony of the two accusers since Carroll needed to prove that Trump assaulted her. Their testimony, Carroll’s lawyers said, was evidence of Trump’s modus operandi.

    These other assaults were pursued and proven in court, right? Because otherwise it would just be random anecdotes.

    • ron73440

      Proof?

      It’s Trump, of course he’s guilty.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    “Trump cannot show any abuse of discretion in the district court’s careful evidentiary rulings. And even if he could, Trump would not be entitled to a new trial given the overwhelming evidence supporting the verdict in Carroll’s favor,” Carroll’s attorneys wrote.

    Overwhelming evidence, or carefully crafted jury instructions?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Science

    Lichtman revealed his decision Thursday morning in an op-ed video for The New York Times.

    “The Democrats will hold on to the White House, and Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States,” Lichtman said in the video.

    “At least, that’s my prediction for this race.”

    His forecasts are based on a historical index model he dubs the “Keys to the White House.”

    The unique system, which he developed in the early 1980s with the Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok, analyzes the political landscape through the lens of 13 true-false statements focused on the incumbent president’s party.

    If six or more of the statements are false, then the challenger — in this case, Trump — is predicted to win.

    That’s it. Game over.

    • kinnath

      Go ahead and cheat. We got you covered.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      May as well slaughter a lamb and read the entrails as pay any attention to this.

      • Tundra

        Mmmmm. Rack of lamb sounds great!

    • ron73440

      I read the questions and they are all broad and opinion based.

      Even if his system is 100% accurate, there is an argument to be made that he answered his own questions using corporate media fed answers.

      You’d probably have better luck with the Oracle of Delphi.

    • The Other Kevin

      Scott Adams just picked that apart. The guy uses 13 questions. And he’s extremely loose with the interpretation of those questions. For example, the race favors the incumbent if they are running for re-election, if there was not a primary (aka nobody is challenging them), and there is a third-party candidate.

      He scores all of those for Kamala, including those three, and got 8/13 for Kamala. Adams scored 13/13 for Trump.

  25. Ted S.

    RIP Sergio Mendes.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    First degree platforming

    The Biden administration is denouncing Tucker Carlson after the far-right personality hosted a guest on his show this week who suggested the Holocaust happened by accident, calling the interview “a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans.”

    During Carlson’s two-hour sit-down with Darryl Cooper, a podcaster whom he said “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” Cooper claimed that Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Jews was an unintended consequence – something akin to poor planning instead of the methodical extermination that it actually was.

    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Cooper claimed, was the “chief villain of the Second World War” and “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did, becoming something other than an invasion of Poland.”

    Carlson’s platforming of Cooper has been widely criticized in recent days, including by some right-wing figures who have defended Carlson in the past. Elon Musk, who promoted the interview on his social media platform, X, calling it “Very interesting. Worth watching,” later deleted his post.

    On Thursday the White House added its weight to the matter.

    Deviation from the narrative should be a capital crime.

    • ron73440

      I am currently listening to Dangerous History , he has an extremely long series on Woodrow Wilson.

      He is currently on part 12, getting to the lead up to America entering WWI.

      Churchill’s rules for shipping were designed to create civilian casualties from German U-boats to encourage us to jump in.

      If you think you hate Wilson,and have hours of driving to do, I highly recommend listening to it.

      Here is the link to Part 1:

      https://profcj.org/ep186/

    • Tundra

      Buchanan took a huge load of abuse for his book, too.

      Churchill was an evil piece of shit, just like every single other “world leader.”

      The interview was terrific, by the way.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m seeing a lot of push back on X about this. Which is exactly how it should work. Someone says something, other people are offended or disagree, and they respond. But the current trend is to call this “hate speech” and ban it.

      • Tundra

        My problem with it is that the pushback is mostly from people who haven’t actually listened to the interview or bothered to research beyond the bullshit propaganda. Push back, for sure, but bring something else to the table beyond “stone the heretic!”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Follow the orthodoxy and don’t think for yourself and if you step out of line you’ll be lucky if all you get is deplatformed. This country is going to shit and the government has no business criticizing the intellectual musings of private citizens.

    • PutridMeat

      who suggested the Holocaust happened by accident

      This is just a flat out lie. Now I have my problems and nits to pick with MartyrMade and I think he’s wrong about some substantial things wrt WWII (and right about others). But he never said anything like the Holocaust happened by accident. In fact, I don’t think he ever mentioned the Holocaust.

      What he did say is that the Germans did not plan Operation Barbarossa at all from a logistics perspective. Their army had no plans about how to deal with prisoners of war during the course of the invasion as they moved forward quickly into the Soviet Union. So they ended up have prisoner of war camps flooded with soldiers surrendering (and probably civilians as well) with no plans or means to house them or feed them for any extended period of time. So they were starving to death and it became easier – and more humane if you’re a twisted evil fuck – to just kill them. That’s all he referred to, at least in the Tucker interview. There was never a suggestion that the Holocaust just happened by mistake – and in fact it was never mentioned.

      Of course have a planned extermination of the Jews probably makes it a lot easier/de-sensitizing to just say why not deal with this problem the same way?

      0th level thinking. “Me hear word camp. Me hear word Nazi. Me hear word accident. Tucker Bad Man! – HE EXCUSE HOLOCAUST!!!”

      • Tundra

        That’s exactly right.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Reached for comment on Thursday, Carlson sharply criticized the White House.

    “The fact that these lunatics have used the Churchill myth to bring our country closer to nuclear war than at any moment in history disgusts me, and should terrify every American,” he said in a text message to CNN. “They’re warmonger freaks. They don’t get the moral high ground.”

    Don’t back down. Attack.

    • rhywun

      +1 would eat

      • Not Adahn

        I forget (if you ever announced) where you moved, but do you have a Stewarts?

      • rhywun

        Nope.

    • Tundra

      Would.

    • Not Adahn

      Would eat — but what’s the cole slaw looking stuff?

      • PieInTheSky

        Cole slaw. I avoid it too much mayo usually i get a fatoush salad on the side

      • PieInTheSky

        No idea why they include this it is not really lebanese

      • Not Adahn

        Yes, that was puzzling me.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’ll buy that for a dollar!

    • Not Adahn

      What happened to the roughnecks of old?

    • Gustave Lytton

      the northern Denver suburb of Aurora

      Ok….

  28. The Late P Brooks

    My problem with it is that the pushback is mostly from people who haven’t actually listened to the interview or bothered to research beyond the bullshit propaganda. Push back, for sure, but bring something else to the table beyond “stone the heretic!”

    All they need are their ADL-issued talking points.

  29. Gustave Lytton

    Leaving aside the too frequent stupidity of giving guns to a kid as therapy (Sandy Hook, Kip Kinkle, etc), I think the real goal is to intimidate ordinary gun owning parents from allowing their kids to access firearms and make them into some mystical totems rather than a normal but dangerous if not handled properly tool.